News

November 1, 2024
On Nov. 4, Yale Peabody Museum, in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center, will host an experimental opera that imagines Earth after human extinction…   An...
October 19, 2024
Ten Ph.D. students from across the humanities joined Yale this fall as the fourth cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities. The...
October 17, 2024
On September 6, 2024, twelve members of Yale Environmental Humanities—graduate students, postdoctoral associates, faculty, and administrators—embarked from Branford,...
October 8, 2024
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.   In this magisterial...
October 1, 2024
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.     On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a...
September 24, 2024
One of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024   A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped...
September 8, 2024
Yale Environmental Humanities will host a welcome-back panel and reception on Friday, September 20th, at HQ 134. 4 p.m.: Opening Remarks and Panel Discussions (with Q&As...
August 1, 2024
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Independent by Brian Slattery: Even...
July 29, 2024
Read more at YaleNews James Scott (“Scotty”) ‘67 Ph.D., a revered scholar whose pathbreaking work crossed intellectual boundaries, died on July 19 at his home in Durham,...
June 18, 2024
Lav Kanoi was profiled by Fran Silverman for Yale School of the Environment’s Canopy Magazine. Lav was the Yale Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Coordinator as...
June 17, 2024
Tony Yeboah is a graduating PhD candidate studying the relationships between colonialism, urban planning, and community-making in West Africa. He previously studied and...
June 2, 2024
Pairing teenagers with Kodaks, the photo exhibit at the Ives Public Library invites its viewers to reimagine the city.   Visitors at the Ives Public Library found CT Transit...
Kevin Yang, with students Destiny White, Jeremy Thames and Deandre Watt. Lucy Gellman Photos.
May 21, 2024
Kevin Yang and Fany Kuzmova’s 2023–24 Environmental Humanities grant project, “New Haven, Revisited,” received a write up in the New Haven Arts Paper by journalist Lucy...
May 16, 2024
The Yale Environmental Humanities Program is excited to announce the recipients of its 2024 Environmental Public Humanities Grants. The grant program supports projects...
May 14, 2024
Yale Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce the seven 2024 recipients of the Graduate Certificate in the Environmental Humanities sponsored by the Yale Graduate...
May 5, 2024
Abigail Fields is a PhD candidate in the French department studying representations of the environment in 19th- and 20th- century French-language literature. We spoke to them...
May 3, 2024
Colton Klein, PhD Student in History of Art and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, has published ”The Turpentine State: Minnie Evans and North Carolina Ecologies...
April 25, 2024
Santiago Acosta left his native Venezuela in 2011 to continue his graduate studies in the United States. He started out at San Francisco State University, then headed to the...
April 25, 2024
Extractions, an Environmental Humanities grant-funded project, brought climate and choreography together on Friday and Saturday evenings of April 5th and 6th in Pauli Murray’...
April 18, 2024
History major AJ Laird ’24 —this year’s Yale Library Senior Exhibit Fellow—has created and curated a 2024 exhibition titled “Whaling Logbooks: Records of a Maritime Industry...